Disney said Wednesday it would no longer sell a boy's costume for a Polynesian character that some Pacific Islanders have compared to blackface.

The getup depicts the character Maui in the upcoming animated movie "Moana." It has a long-sleeve brown shirt and long pants featuring full-body tattoos. It comes with a fake shark-tooth necklace and green-leaf "skirt."

Disney's online store had offered boy's pajamas and a men's T-shirt in a similar design, but those products were no longer available Wednesday.

"The team behind Moana has taken great care to respect the cultures of the Pacific Islands that inspired the film, and we regret that the Maui costume has offended some," the company said in a statement. "We sincerely apologize and are pulling the costume from our website and stores."

"It bastardizes Polynesians by doing something like that. You're stripping away its integrity," said Fairchild, who is attending school in San Antonio, Texas.

The Disney online store recently began selling the costume, just in time for Halloween. The listing noted the getup had "padded arms and legs for mighty stature!"

"Moana" is due for release in November. The animated feature is about a teenager who sails through the South Pacific to a fabled island. She meets Maui — revered in Polynesian oral traditions and viewed by some Pacific Islanders as an ancestor — who helps her explore the ocean.

Marama Fox, a co-leader of New Zealand's indigenous Maori Party and a member of New Zealand's parliament, said the costume was a case of cultural misappropriation and an example of a company trying to profit off of another culture's intellectual property.